Fine Books & Manuscripts Including The Dodge Family Autograph Collection New York | October 23, 2019 Fine Books and Manuscripts Including The Dodge Family Autograph Collection, Natural History, Travel and Americana New York | Wednesday October 23, 2019, at 1pm BONHAMS BIDS INQUIRIES CLIENT SERVICES 580 Madison Avenue +1 (212) 644 9001 New York Monday – Friday 9am-5pm New York, New York 10022 +1 (212) 644 9009 fax Ian Ehling +1 (212) 644 9001 www.bonhams.com [email protected] Director +1 (212) 644 9009 fax +1 (212) 644 9094 PREVIEW To bid via the internet please visit [email protected] REGISTRATION Saturday, October 19 www.bonhams.com/25263 IMPORTANT NOTICE 12pm to 5pm Tom Lamb, Director Please note that all customers, Sunday, October 20 Please note that telephone bids Business Development irrespective of any previous activity 12pm to 5pm must be submitted no later than +1 (917) 921 7342 with Bonhams, are required to Monday, October 21 4pm on the day prior to the [email protected] complete the Bidder Registration 10am to 5pm auction. New bidders must also Form in advance of the sale. The Tuesday, October 22 provide proof of identity and Darren Sutherland form can be found at the back 10am to 5pm address when submitting bids. Specialist of every catalogue and on our Wednesday, October 23 +1 (212) 461 6531 website at www.bonhams.com 10am to 12pm Please contact Client Services [email protected] and should be returned by email or with any bidding inquiries. post to the specialist department SALE NUMBER: 25263 Tim Tezer or to the bids department at LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS Junior Specialist [email protected] CATALOG: $35 AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE +1 (917) 206 1647 [email protected] Please email bids.us@bonhams. To bid live online and / or ILLUSTRATIONS com with “Live bidding” in leave internet bids please go to Mary-Kate Grohoski Front cover: Lot 5 the subject line 48 hrs before www.bonhams.com/auctions/25263 Senior Administrator Inside front cover: Lot 82 the auction to register for this and click on the Register to bid link +1 (917) 206 1608 Inside back cover: Lot 160 service. at the top left of the page. [email protected] Back cover: Lot 245 Bidding by telephone will only be Leslie To accepted on a lot with a lower AUCTIONEER: Administrator estimate in excess of $1000 Ian Ehling - 2068610-DCA +1 (917) 206 1661 [email protected] Bonhams & Butterfields Please see pages 171 to 175 for bidder information including Auctioneers Corp. Los Angeles 2077070-DCA Conditions of Sale, after-sale collection and shipment. All Dr. Catherine Williamson items listed on page 175, and/ Vice President, Director or marked W next to the lot +1 (323) 436 5442 number will be transferred to [email protected] off-site storage, if not removed by Wednesday October 23, 2019 Jabari Ajao by 5pm. Administrator +1 (323) 436 5506 [email protected] San Francisco Adam Stackhouse, Senior Specialist +1 (415) 503 3266 [email protected] © 2018 Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp. All rights reserved. Principal Auctioneer: Matthew Girling, NYC License No. 1236798-DCA DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD We open the Fall 2019 season with our sale of Fine Books and One of the star lots of the Natural History section is the manuscript Manuscripts, including the Dodge Family collection of Autographs, on Indian Birds by Christopher Webb Smith (lot 211) comprised of Americana, Maps of America, Natural History, and Travel including 301 fine original watercolors that form the unpublished maquette books on Greece and India. for Smith’s Magnum Opus. Originally from the author’s personal collection, the manuscript was last sold at auction in the H. Bradley The Dodge collection (see introduction on facing page), includes Martin sale in 1989. Other finely colored bird books include an our cover image (lot 5), a remarkable letter written by Jane Austen octavo edition of Audubon (lot 177), Brasher, Birds and Trees of to her sister Cassandra in which she states, “We are now all four North America (lot 188), Edwards, Natural History of Uncommon of us young Ladies sitting round the Circular Table in the inner Birds (lot 195), Mathews, The Birds of Australia (lot 202). room writing our Letters, while the two Brothers are having a comfortable coze in the room adjoining...,” predating the first The Parthenon and other ruins of Greece’s golden age from recorded appearance of the word “coze” in print in Mansfield Park the Moscahlaidis Family Collection form a strong portion of the by one year. The letter has been in the Dodge Family collection Travel section in this sale. The works on Greece include the most since it was purchased from the Louis J. Haber collection sale in beautiful book ever produced on Greece and Turkey by Dupré, New York, 1909. Other offerings from the Dodge archive in this Voyage a Athenes et a Constantinople. Paris, 1825 (lot 246). section appear on the market: Abraham Lincoln’s appointment of Dodwell, Views in Greece (lot 245) is an outstanding copy with the William E. Dodge (lot 34); a presentation by Ulysses S. Grant also views mounted on card and the colorist for each plate noted by inscribed to William E. Dodge (lot 21); a series of letters from Albert name. Portraits of participants in Greece’s War of Independence Einstein 1946 to Cleveland E. Dodge (lot 16); letters by Dwight D. are include in rare works by Friedel (lot 249), Hess (lot 250) and Eisenhower to the same recipient (lot 17) and many others. Krazeisen (lot 251). The travel section also includes books on Polar exploration, India, Mexico, and Switzerland. On a final note, I The Americana section of the sale includes a rare letter by draw your attention to an unrecorded unique Japanese Manuscript American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla, and leader of the map of the world from the late 18th early 19th century. With China James–Younger Gang, Jesse James, demanding that the recipient and Japan at the center, the map depicts an unusual view of the retract accusations that he, James, is a horse thief (lot 82). Dwight world (lot 294). D. Eisenhower’s letter to General Henri Giraud (lot 72) of a crucial moment during Operation Torch, is a notable example of American The sale will be on view October 19-22 and by appointment. diplomacy. Also fascinating is Ethan Allen’s letter to Crevecoeur Please do not hesitate to contact me or a member of the conveying his own “State of the Union.” Highlights of the Printed department with any questions you may have or to arrange a Maps of America section include maps of Texas: Kosse and private viewing. Scott’s Map of the City of Houston and Environs (lot 160) only know in a very few examples; De Cordova’s Map of the State of Ian Ehling Texas (lot 159) and numerous early printed maps of the Americas Director by Waldseemueller (lot 112), Muenster (lot 114) and Ortelius (lot Bonhams 118). Other important maps are included in the travel section of Books and Manuscripts the sale. ORDER OF SALE Lots 1-55 The Dodge Family Autograph Collection Lots 219-226 Color Plate Books Lots 56-111 Americana Lots 227-323 Exploration and Travel Literature Lots 112-176 Mapping of America Lots 241-256 Greece Property from the Moscahlaidis Family Collection Lots 177-218 Natural History Lots 265-291 India IMPORTANT NOTICES Subject to the Limited Right of Rescission regarding Authorship, lots advertisements; damage to bindings, stains, tears, foxing or other are sold with all faults and imperfections. However, if on collation cosmetic defects, unless resulting in loss to text or illustration; any printed book in this catalog is found to be materially defective in defects to atlases, manuscripts, music, periodicals, and items sold text or illustration, the same may be returned to Bonhams within 20 as collections, archives, association copies, extra-illustrated copies, days of the sale; the undisclosed defect must be detailed in writing. or bindings. The following shall not constitute the basis for a return under the Items indicated in the catalog as “framed” have not been examined foregoing provision: defects stated in the catalog or announced out-of-frame, unless specifically stated. at the time of sale; un-named items, blanks, half-titles, or The Dodge Family Autograph Collection Elizabeth Dodge Huntington Clarke (1884-1976) William E. Dodge, Jr (1832-1903) Cleveland H. Dodge (1860-1926) William E. Dodge and his descendants have quietly yet profoundly Roosevelt’s political career, united in both his philanthropy and influenced the course of events of 19th- and 20th-century America. the family businesses. Cleve also provided financing for Wilson’s The family traces roots back to early Massachusetts Bay settlers, presidential campaigns and smoothed some of Wilson’s financial but the modern line that managed the Phelps Dodge Company, woes post-presidency. advised Presidents, and financed too many causes to count, begins with William Dodge, Sr., whose statue still stands today in Bryant Cleve’s daughter Elizabeth [Dodge Huntington Clarke] was born in Park outside the New York Public Library. With his father-in-law 1884, and with guidance from her Aunt Grace [Hoadley Dodge], Anson Phelps, William founded the Phelps Dodge company in 1833, continued the family’s philanthropic and evangelical work, and was establishing himself as one of the original Merchant Princes of Wall instrumental in many of the family’s efforts in the name of young Street, whose business acumen was outpaced only by his piety. His girls and women.